Members of South African political parties and civil society organisations marched through the streets of Johannesburg on Wednesday demanding a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip as they marked the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
Rival political parties including the ruling African National Congress and the left-wing opposition Economic Freedom Fighters were among many demonstrators who marched across the Nelson Mandela Bridge to protest against Israel’s military offensive in Gaza against Hamas.
Al Jazeera’s Fahmida Miller reports from Johannesburg.
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Ah yes, of course Israel should take advise from the guys that holding the famous flashy green flag with the curly letters…what can go wrong.
they need to go sit down somewhere. black people dont even stick together for their own race.
When South Africa cares more than your neighbors you are in trouble.
What absolute rubbish.
@@rtmslm2538 Agreed. When the neighbors don’t care, no one cares.
SA government being fed the script by their handlers Russia and its friend Iran.
South Africa…..EXTREME poverty,
high murder rate,criminal gangs as strong as the army,violence and sexual violence against women very high,racial inequality….to this day,
high government corruption NO SUPRISE
These protesters and their country BEYOND PATHETIC
South african blacks only
they should take care of their 3rd world country first.
the blacks of south africa are alive because they were allowed to live and not destroyed in war, they should remember that.
We need to pressure the US from funding Israel by boycotting US brands and products.
Pffft. Comedy. Fairytales and dreams that’s all you have.
@@mfh6982 the fact that you replied to my comment betrays your point.
@@haroldcruz8550 Or, you are just comedy.
Thanks you sisatar and barodar free.palestine
South Africa is a beautiful people of truth🙏
Yes, we’ve all heard how safe it is to roam around there beautiful culture, beautiful history from the people that gave you multiple infectious viruses and a apartheid really is a final example of a nation
@@Nimrodo85You incorrecly insinuate that Africans perpetrated apartheid. Europeans subjected Africans to apartheid. You assert that crime is an ethnic phenomenon. It is not. Crime is an urban phenomenon. Crime exists in Rome, London, and Tokyo.
@@aguilayserpiente crime exists everywhere however, in South Africa crime rates are significantly higher than Europe and if you try to argue with that is basically like saying, you can also claim that Brazil or El Salvador for that example or just safe, that’s not true violence rate are higher
@@Nimrodo85 There is no argument, as you bear the burden of proof for your original unsupported claim that black South Africans may not speak out against apartheid in Palestine, because South Africans are black. You failed to cite verifiable evidence and authority from a published book of sociology to support your incredible new premises that a) there is a rate of something (speed, girth, length, height, evaporation, absorption), b) there is crime in Europe of a different, better kind, because the majority of Europeans are white, c) because Brazil or El Salvador are countries, d) thus, black South Africans may not denounce Israeli apartheid in Palestine.
Your adolescent reasoning reflects the deplorable state of the educational system where ever you may be.
@@aguilayserpienteBiden, who is going to take care of my family who have Arab and African father’s. I am a white Christian Ukrainian. How are you going to protect interracial and multi-faith families from these attacks.
Salute to south Africa. Keep going your human right defender solidarity. A shame for europe and usa. They totaly failed if israel commit war crimes
Thanks for our brother in south Africa … Palestine will be free inshallah ❤
The world stands with Palestine!
The people are rising
I stand with Israel 🇮🇱
Sit down.
@@pattiehernandez769You are rationalizing displacement by European colonizers, another crime against humanity contrary to international law:
Principle 5
All authorities and international actors shall respect and ensure respect for their obligations under international law, including human rights and humanitarian law, in all circumstances, so as to prevent and avoid conditions that might lead to displacement of persons.
Principle 6
1. Every human being shall have the right to be protected against being
arbitrarily displaced from his or her home or place of habitual residence.
2. The prohibition of arbitrary displacement includes displacement:
(a) When it is based on policies of apartheid, “ethnic cleansing” or
similar practices aimed at/or resulting in altering the ethnic, religious or
racial composition of the affected population;
(b) In situations of armed conflict, unless the security of the civilians involved or imperative military reasons so demand;
(c) In cases of large-scale development projects, which are not justified by compelling and overriding public interests;
(d) In cases of disasters, unless the safety and health of those affected requires their evacuation; and
(e) When it is used as a collective punishment.
United Nations, Economic and Social Council, “Further Promotion and Encouragement of Human Rights And Fundamental Freedoms, Including The Question Of The Programme And Methods Of Work Of The Commission Human Rights, Mass Exoduses and Displaced Persons: Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Francis M. Deng, submitted pursuant to Commission resolution 1997/39, addendum Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement,”(E/CN.4/1998/53/Add.2), Prin. 5, 6, 7, pp. 6-7.
Israel threatens to and has for 75 years violated the above principles, among other U.N. laws, and numerous U.N. resolutions ordering Israel to end the occupation of Palestine and return all lands seized from the Palestinians.
The Islamo-Marxist and ignorant world, yes.
South Africa, the West and even Europe are many who support Palestine by demonstrating in the streets. In fact, I don’t see many Islamic countries where people do the same thing lol.
Thank you South Africa
When will you please wake up, irrespective of your religion, save yourselves and your children from these distractions that divert you from seeing the destruction of the whole world that is coming very soon?
” apartheid ” Israel
Indeed ?
Arab political parties in the parliament.
Arabs judges on the supreme court bench.
Enough with the lies.
You just make yourselves look ludicrous. 😅
😂😂😂 you hypocrites call for ceasefire in sudan if you care so much
South Africans? Do they need jobs or something worthwhile to do?
Well, they are protesting so, yes.
These people are waiting there time
Have the SA ceased to ethnic cleanse the whites from their country?
No
Free Palestine from Zionism and south from the anc
Immediate cease fire
Wow, South Africa demands something.
For sure wont
In response to the South African demands the world has issued a statement: Crickets.
It is interesting how South Africans are okay with all wars in the Africa, but not okay with Nigerians in South Africa.
yeah you are right. they dont even stick together for their own race. they need to go sit down somewhere.
@@feliciarivera4485interesting…south Africans in general have nothing against other Africans..however the country is suffering as many countries of an influx of migrants while the people of the country goes hungry…the last tine I checked Nigeria does not have a war so why so many Nigerians in south Africa?…..ahh to make deals and businesses right? That’s good but I wonder if a south African xan just put up a stall and sell whatever in Nigeria?…no as they will be killed and all their stuff stolen!…it is time for people to stop their lies about south Africans and see a few people acting put and say oh look it the whole country….but if we see it in Europe we like oh they have a reason or when Nigerians do this to their fellow Africans the world close their eyes….funny how borders are for the west but Africa is considered one people right…because people do not take the time to educate themselves on matters
Nigerians are safe in their country amd do not have to stay in south Africa if they don’t like it…
Most Nigerians destroy our children with drugs. Stop your drug dealings.
@@feliciarivera4485Go to South Africa and see how Nigerian drugs are destroying children. No drug dealers are allowed anywhere in the world. If you want Nigerians take them to your country.
The South African Palestinian coalition. There’s nothing they can’t do.
What these poor South Africans should be marching against is their corrupt government.
They’ll all soon be begging the world for aid but as soon as their government says the word “apartheid” then they forget all their suffering. 😂
Lol u know who is funding the government & has the clout to destroy it. 😜
Yep..and Europe is not corrupt and poor Europeans have no corrupt and thieving leaders as white people are not corrupt…American leaders are not corrupt right…that is why their senitors and congressman go in poor and cone out rich….they were just earning a living doing gods work😂😂oh the Arabs are not corrupt because they are doing so much for all the other Arabs whom have been bombed over the years for their oil and land….do yourself a favour and read a book or use your brain on corruption…vut it is nice to point out these corrupt African leaders as it makes us feel good….kind of like watching fat people on tlc and say oh man atleast I’m not them as they eat too much…we are all f@cked and the sooner you can stop pointing fingers you will be free
Love and respect for South Africa and all other countries supporting a free Palestine!
Thanks Sudáfrica 🎉🎉🎉🎉✌️💚🤍❤️🙌🙌🙌🙌
Oh and by the way…they’ll have to stop being a welfare state before they can even start to become independent.
Now you’ve done it. The only reason they are a welfare tribe is of course the Jews fault. LOL
Everything is clear now, no one can hide the truth..
Thank you S. Africa, God bless.
LOL bunch of uneducated Losers
The empire won’t allow any ceasefire. Too much money to be made from the deaths of other humans. But we must never give up on peace. Thank you South Africa.
Dit is waarlik ongelooflik. Baie dankie Suid Afrika as gevolg van die aanhangers van Palestine wees.
Dankie❤❤❤❤🇵🇸🕊🕊🕊🌏🌎🌍☝🏾
There was a ceasefire until the Hma s massacre
they just want to be trendy
The rest of the world says mind your own business you Russian mouth pieces, it was African prisoners conscripted to fight Ukraine wasn’t it hypocrites
I demand to stop believing in your god for humanity sake.
Joshua 1:2-4
2 “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them—the children of Israel. 3 Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses. 4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your territory.
Joel 3:17
Then you will know that I am the Lord your God,
Dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain.
So Jerusalem will be holy,
And strangers will pass through it no more.
Immense immense respect for a South Africa 🇿🇦, free free Palestine 🇵🇸 ❤
those are some smart abeeds
❤🕊🇵🇸❤
Ooga booga. Smart abeeds!
Hats off to South Africans
Thank you South Africa 🫡
Take a look in your own backyard,your country is 💩
Height of hypocrisy. The S Africans practice discrimination against the Namibians and Zimbabweans. And here they are out protesting. They should all go and do something more productive like working and looking after their families.
Discrimination happens in families. Get over it. Watching this torture over and over again is too much although I thank you AJ for bringing the truth of world issues to the public.
I just want to reiterate…US, Germany, EU, NATO. Who is going to take care of my family who have Arab and African father’s. I am a white Christian Ukrainian. How are you going to protect interracial and multi-faith families from attacks in the western world and the middle east. Stop supplying weapons to Ukraine and Israel. Ukrainians and Palestinians are not interested in your proxy war. Life was better for Ukrainians when they were part of USSR and want to be part of the Russian Federation. Palestinians need to be released from the torture of Israel occupation.
Russia has always been demonised by the west with alleged poisonings of former political figures. If any of it were true Zelensky would not be alive today. We all know where these poisonings came from and the secret services have been doing this for decades.
In Sura Al-Mai’dah , Allah addresses the children of Israel as “O my people,” urging them to enter the Holy Land. The verse states “O my people enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned to you and do not turn back !
South Africans demand food, jobs, electricity and safety. This by no means represents the majority.
Fantastic so good to see the solidarity.
Thank you Sth Africans.
Hebrew spoken today is a made up language by the Zionists. Jesus Christ who was born into Judaism spoke Aramaic. Ancient Hebrew is a lost archaic language, just like Egyptian hieroglyphics. Interpretations of Egyptian hieroglyphics and Ancient Hebrew were invented in the late 19th century. Ben Yehuda the revivalists of Hebrew in late 19th century was formerly a Russian Zionist born in (Belarus) prepared the way for reinstatement of the language for future Jewish settlements in the Levant (Ottoman Empire). All this revivalism was planned before the two major wars. He died 1922 and was buried at the Mt of Olives
to protect you from another’s wife,
in front of someone else’s [woman] who uses ingratiating.
US, Germany, EU, NATO. Who is going to take care of my family who have Arab and African father’s. I am a white Christian Ukrainian. How are you going to protect interracial and multi-faith families from attacks in the western world and the middle east. Stop supplying weapons to Ukraine and Israel. Ukrainians and Palestinians are not interested in your proxy war. Life was better for Ukrainians when they were part of USSR and want to be part of the Russian Federation. Palestinians need to be released from the torture of Israel occupation.
Russia has always been demonised by the west with alleged poisonings of former political figures. If any of it were true Zelensky would not be alive today. We all know where these poisonings came from and the secret services have been doing this for decades.
they need to go sit down somewhere. they dont even stick together for their own race. there is a mass phychosis in this world. its spreading like covid. i hope israel do what they got to do to protect themselves.
Palestinians in Gaza are radicalized they can never have a state they should all be moved to the West Bank so they can be controlled by the other Palestinians living there
I am requesting Both Palestinians and Israelis to finalise the issue. Accept the borders and make a new Palestine for your child, How long will you sacrifice your dears for this.
Lol “South Africans demand” 😅😅😅
Thank you south African, Humanity First,Humanity First,Humanity First,
TO RESTORE CORRECT DEFINITION OF HUMAN RIGHTS PALESTINE 🇵🇸 MUST BE FREE
Islamists are not human beings . They are devils with human race face.
প্রতিটি মুসলিম রাষ্ট্র যদি একজোট হয়ে আমেরিকা ষড়যন্ত্র থেকে বাইর হয়ে এসে প্রতিটি মুসলিম রাষ্ট্রের নিরাপত্তার জন্য এবং মুসলিম জনগোষ্ঠীর নিরাপত্তার জন্য একটা সংগঠন তৈরি করে এই সামরিক সংগঠন তৈরি করা প্রতিটি মুসলিম রাষ্ট্রের উচিত এই সামরিক সংগঠন থেকে প্রতিটি মুসলিম রাষ্ট্র প্রতিটি মুসলিম ব্যক্তিদের কে যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের ষড়যন্ত্র থেকে নিরাপত্তা দিয়ে রাখতে হবে যুক্তরাষ্ট্র সবসময় অন্য দেশকে যুদ্ধে জড়িয়ে রাখে তাদের অস্ত্র বিক্রি করার জন্য এবং যুক্তরাষ্ট্র কখনো অন্যান্য রাষ্ট্রে শান্তি দেখতে চায় না তারা চায় অন্যান্য দেশগুলোকে অশান্তিতে রাখতে তাহলে তাদের অস্ত্র বিক্রি হবে এবং তাদেরকে নেতা হিসেবে মানাতে তাদেরকে বাধ্য করা হয় যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের পক্ষ থেকে এই জন্য তারা অন্যান্য রাষ্ট্রতে ষড়যন্ত্র করে যুদ্ধ লাগিয়ে রাখে তাই এ ষড়যন্ত্র থেকে বাহির হয়ে আসা প্রতিটি মুসলিমের উচিত এবং ফিলিস্তিনের ইস্যুতে যেসব রাষ্ট্রগুলো ফিলিস্তিনি বিরোধিতা করবে তাদেরকে বয়কট করা প্রতিটি মুসলিম রাষ্ট্রের থেকে ঘোষণা দেওয়া উচিত মনে করি আমি যদি আমাদের মুসলিম রাষ্ট্র গুলো ক্ষমতাশীল রাষ্ট্রগুলো আছে তাদের প্রতি অনুরোধ রইলো তারা যেন ফিলিস্তিনের ইস্যুতে যারাই ফিলিস্তিনের বিরুদ্ধে যাবে তাদেরকে বয়কট করতে হবে এটা বাধ্য করা হোক মুসলিম বড় রাষ্ট্র গুলোর প্রতি অনুরোধ রইলো এই ঘোষণা টা যেন প্রতিটি মুসলিম রাষ্ট্রের কাছে দেয়া হয় তাহলে ইনশাআল্লাহ যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের ষড়যন্ত্র থেকে পৃথিবীর প্রতিটি মুসলিম রাষ্ট্র বেঁচে যাবে ইনশাআল্লাহ🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇶🇦🇶🇦🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇰🇼🇰🇼🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲 আমিন আমিন আমিন
In chutdo ki bund me jyada aag lgi hai
Lol! South Africa is literally imploding upon itself, on the verge of total collapse, total anarchy, yet they are criticizing others?
Qué belleza ❤
So many uneducated people – before jumping into the stream – study the history first – wonder who is pulling the puppet strings – what a shame🤔
That is our government Most citizens support Israel 🇮🇱 As South African l support Israel
So it actually took this to finally get hostages free and a cease for to happen??? Can someone explain what why this shirt is so high???
South Africa is itself an occupied country. People don’t have land and they don’t have financial resources as black indigenous people. Why are they fighting for other peoples freedom. Fight for yourself first.
South africa demands as who?😂😂😂😂😂
Human beings who were once apartheid victims,don’t expect u to understand
Your fellow Africans southern sudan are suffering killing each other and you are pretending to love arabs who are terrorists, fake african leaders with no vision looking for cheap popularity😂😂😂😂
☮️🌞👍👦❤️👏✌️🇵🇸🤲✍️👦
War crime Israel. May god will be free free Palestine .inshallah
Israel is terro-rist state
Free Plestine❤❤❤❤❤❤
They are not leader they are pirates their life us important than common people losing faith in democracy
Jews need to leave South Africa… they are apartheid and war mongers. They dont belong in our FREE country. Leave our lands… go back to the various colonial countries you came from… thats where u belong!!! F*@% aprtheid jew mentality
The Islamic community will always be greatful to south Africans, the land of madiba
Love south Africa
,love plastine
we all together ❤❤❤
South African and the other nation who support humanity won the heart of Palestinian people..❤
free palestine from hamas isis
Al jazerra = BS reporting. … why havent they shown the young man in double armed bandages walking freely from the prison and boarding the bus UNINJURED? …this chanel is the counter to western channels…both BS unless you show all sides to this catastrophe
Long Live South Africe thanks for your humanity and supporting Palastine ❤❤
But SA is cool with Putin invading Ukraine though…money money
The Israelis are today’s Nazis.
Shame on Egypt, Bahrain, UAE, Morocco which still have diplomatic & trade link with Israel
NO!! NEVER!!
Free Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇮🇩❤❤❤ l love you Palestine
Allah hu Akbar
Boycott made in Israel 😈
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Israel is a terrorist camp sponsored by America
South Africa goes hard. And if anyone knows about what an apartheid is… it’s them! That says it all
South Africa that always kill foreigners in their country?
All Arab nations should Boycott trade with Israel. It will have a huge impact.
Our kids are dying of hunger in the Eastern Cape out country is in ruins and we worry about Gazza no worries about our own people. Make it make sense!!
Israel _was_ one of the longest standing supporters of apartheid in South Africa. I think that’s b/c Israel is a racist apartheid state itself.
Coming from a country where the government can’t supply electricity and water plus a murder rate which is tantamount to genocide. Run by a bunch of kleptocratic autocrats 🙄
I’m so proud to be South African! My country’s unabashed advocacy for Palestine fills me with pride. Mandela said that the freedom of South Africa will always be incomplete without the freedom of Palestine. Power to Palestine.
The South African government is a disgrace and does not speak for all South Africans!
Nah, Israeli military are gonna take no notice.
The Palestinian Authority is an authoritarian regime that has not held elections in over 15 years; it has been criticized for human rights abuses, including cracking down on journalists, human rights activists, and dissent against its rule.
Tell hamas first to stop rocket fire.